War Over US Missile Shield Cites Israel, Not Iran as Threat
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on September 11, 2015
US Moving Ahead With Regional Missile Defense Systems Despite Iran Deal
The GOP failed this week in an effort to open Gulf State skies to a rain of Israeli missiles.
This week, Republicans tried to overturn the American based missile defense system which has been initially proposed to defend regional nations against Iran. However, with the Iran deal safely in place and the regional threat significantly lowered something very strange, even by Washington standards, happened.
President Obama and the Democrats kept pushing for the system which would protect the Gulf Region from mid-range ballistic missiles. Republicans, directed by the powerful Israel lobby, worked to kill the system, leaving the Gulf States vulnerable to missile attack, not by Iran but by Israel itself.
Democrats on the hill carried a grab bag of excuses for the press and anyone willing to listen, a number less than “0.”
What security advisors around the president pointed out in private, once the Iran deal is secure, and the Iran deal is secure, then the only missile threat is from Israel against the Gulf States, which are predictably moving toward Iran.
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